Mary Bousted Author & Editor

Dr Mary Bousted is, with Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), the largest education union in Europe with 450,000 members. She represents the interests of NEU members to the government and to a wide variety of other stakeholders. Mary regularly appears in the broadcast media. Her views are evidence-informed, strongly held and forthrightly delivered. Mary was previously an English teacher and a university lecturer with nearly 40 years’ experience in education.
Mary contributes regular articles to newspapers and education journals, and has also contributed to education textbooks. She sits on the executive committee of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and was a member of the Acas board. Mary is also an accomplished public speaker and has debated at the Oxford and Cambridge Unions.